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MGEA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Marginal Revenue, Demand Curve, Price Discrimination

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23 Oct 2014
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Economics for Management Studies
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MGEA01H3
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Michael Ho

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Monopolist: a firm that is the only seller in a market, the demand curve for the firm"s product is simply the market demand curve. Unlike a perfectly competitive firm, a monopolist faces a negatively sloped demand curve. A monopolist faces a tradeoff between the price it charges and the quantity it sells. Marginal revenue (cid:1)(cid:2) = (cid:4) (cid:7) (cid:8)(cid:2) = (cid:1)(cid:2) (cid:7) (cid:4) (cid:7) (cid:7) = (cid:4: the revenue resulting from the sale of one extra unit of the product (cid:9)(cid:2) = If price continues to fall, tr will start to fall and mr will become negative: demand is elastic ( > 1) when mr is positive, demand is inelastic ( < 1) when mr is negative. To maximize profits: the firm should not produce at all unless market price is above avc. If the firm does produce, it should produce a level of output such that mc = mr. A profit-maximizing monopolist has p > mc.

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Related Questions

1. Which of the following is true under a monopoly?

  • A. Monopolist chooses the highest possible price.
  • B. Monopolist chooses a price that is always higher than marginal cost of production.
  • C. Marginal revenue of a monopolist is price.
  • D. None of the above are true for monopoly.

2. You are the manager of a monopoly that faces a demand curve described by P = 230 -20Q. Your costs are C = 5 +30Q. The profit-maximizing output for your firm is:

  • A. 4
  • B. 5
  • C. 6
  • D. 7

3. Which of the following is true?

  • A. A monopolist produces on the inelastic portion of its demand.
  • B. A monopolist always earns an economic profit.
  • C. The more inelastic the demand, the closer marginal revenue is to price.
  • D. In the short run a monopoly will shutdown if P < AVC.

4. In a competitive industry with identical firms, long rum equilibrium is characterized by:

  • A. P = AC
  • B. P = MC
  • C. MR = MC
  • D. All of the above

5. You are the manager of a firm that sells its product in a competitive market at a price of $50. Your firm's cost function is C = 40 + 5Q2. Your firm's maximum profits are:

  • A. 125
  • B. 250
  • C. 100
  • D. 85

6. A perfectly competitive firm faces:

  • A. A perfectly elastic demand function
  • B. A perfectly inelastic demand function
  • C. a demand function with unitary elasticity
  • D. none of the above

8. SMC always passes through the

a. minimum of both short run total cost curve and short run variable cost curve.

b. minimum of both short run average cost curve and short run average variable cost curve.

c. minimum of the long run average curve.

d. minimum of the short run average cost curve only.

9. In the first-degree price discrimination consumer surplus is

a. determined by elasticity of demand.

b. determined by the difference between P and MR

c. determined by area under the demand curve minus price.

d. zero.

10. A price taker firm faces a

a. perfectly elastic demand curveย 

b. declining marginal revenue

c. perfectly elastic supply curve

d. declining market demand curve

11. For a discriminating monopolist, the price is usually

a. higher in the market which has elastic demand

b. higher in the market which has inelastic demand.

c. lower in the market which has inelastic demand

d. higher in the market which as higher marginal revenue.

12. At the point of inflection on the total cost curve.

a. marginal and average costs are equal.

b. marginal cost is maximum.

c. marginal cost is minimum.

d. average cost is minimum.

e. marginal product is minimum.

13. A discriminating monopolist must allocate output by the law of

a. equi-marginal utility c. equi-marginal productivity

b. equi-marginal revenue d. equi-marginal cost

Suppose a monopolist faces a demand curve for its output of P = 300รขยˆย’Q. This means that the marginal revenue curve of the monopolist is M R = 300 รขยˆย’ 2Q. Assume that the marginal cost of production is constant and equal to $40.

a) Write down an expression for the monopolists profit, as a function of the quantity of output it produces.

b) If the monopolist must charge the same price for all units of output that it sells (that is, if the monopolist is a single price monopolist), what level of output will maximise the monopolists profit? What price will the monopolist charge? What is its level of profit?

c) If this were a competitive market instead of a monopoly, what level of output would be produced and what price would be charged? What is the level of profit for firms if it were perfectly competitive?

d) Draw a diagram of demand, marginal revenue, and marginal cost that illustrates your answer to part b). From this work out consumer surplus and producer surplus.

e) Draw the same diagram but for your answer to c), the case of the competitive market. From this work out consumer surplus and producer surplus. How much deadweight loss is there from the monopoly? Why?